Faculty Events
Human-guided Task Transfer for Interactive Robots
Abstract: Adaptability is an essential skill in human cognition, enabling us to draw from our extensive, life-long experiences with various objects and tasks in order to address novel problems. To date, most robots do not have this kind of adaptability, and yet, as our expectations of robots’ interactive and assistive capacity grows, it will be [...]
RI Faculty Social
All Robotics Institute faculty are invited to attend this informal team-building business/social event. Beverages and snacks will be provided.
RI Faculty Social
All Robotics Institute faculty are invited to attend this informal team-building business/social event. Beverages and snacks will be provided.
Robotics Institute Faculty Retreat
More information to come.
2020 RI Faculty Dinner
Invitation with information will be emailed to invitees.
Spring 2020 RI Reappointment & Promotion Preview Meeting – For RI Voting Faculty Only
Numerical Methods for Things That Move: From Quadrupeds to Starships
Abstract: Recent advances in motion planning and control have led to dramatic successes like SpaceX’s rocket landings and Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot acrobatics. However, the underlying numerical methods used in these applications are typically decades old, not tuned for high performance on planning and control problems, and are often unable to cope with the types [...]
Human-in-the-loop Model Creation
Abstract: Modern machine learning systems have made astonishing progress in automating labor-intensive tasks such as visual recognition and machine translation. While ML systems complete these tasks better and faster, humans are largely left behind. Indeed, most humans are entirely excluded from the creation process of machine learning models, except for tedious data annotation. In [...]